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Exhibitions
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Picturing Enlightenment: Thangka in the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
This special exhibition marks the completion of an extensive project to conserve the Mead Art Museum’s collection of thangka (pronounced “tan-kah”)—scroll paintings of Buddhist figures. So fragile that they have remained largely inaccessible to scholars and museum visitors for nearly six decades, Amherst College’s eighteen thangka, primarily from Tibet, have been gently cleaned, stabilized, and repaired by conservators at Museum Textile Services in Andover, Massachusetts, under the leadership of Camille Myers Breeze. A generous grant from the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation and additional support from the Amherst College Department of Religion underwrote the conservation treatment. The Louis and Nettie Horch Foundation provided further support for the conservation of one thangka.
For more information, visit www.amherst.edu/museums/mead/programs/2011exhib/picturingenlightenment.
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Photo Exhibition: The Gesture in Light: Illuminated
Exhibit: The Gesture in Light: Illuminated by Theresa Antonellis runs from Monday Jan. 9 through Sunday May 11.
A reception will be held Thursday, February 2, from 4-6pm.
The exhibit consists of a related series of framed prints featuring photo-enhanced light photography by Theresa Antonellis.
Info: 577-0785, mcharney@library.umass.edu
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Charles Dickens at 200
An exhibition of books by Charles Dickens from the Mortimer Rare Book Room, in celebration of the 200th anniversary of Dickens birth in February 2012. The exhibition is in the Book Arts Gallery (Neilson, 3rd floor). See http://www.smith.edu/libraries/info/ for library open hours, direction and other general information.
The exhibition runs from January 15 through April 15, 2012
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Paste Papers of the Pioneer Valley
Exhibition is on view from January 15 through April 15, 2012.
"Paste Papers of the Pioneer Valley" features decorated paste papers by 19 bookbinders, most of whom live and work in the vicinity of Northampton. The exhibition marks the publication of "Paste Papers of the Pioneer Valley" in late fall 2011, and also showcases bookbindings which incorporate paste papers. All items on display are from the Mortimer Rare Book Room.
The exhibition is in the Neilson Library, 3rd floor. See http://www.smith.edu/libraries/info/ for library open hours, direction and other general information.
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Exhibition: Eija-Liisa Ahtila: The Annunciation
February 22-May 6, 2012
The University Museum of Contemporary Art is pleased to present The Annunciation, a new work by Eija-Liisa Ahtila, the internationally acclaimed artist from Finland who is a pioneer in the development of multi-media art. Her work explores the potential of the film medium, weaving an intricate web of references between film and theater, painting and poetry, fiction and documentary.
Museum Hours: Beginning February 1, 2012
Tuesday-Friday, 11:00 AM-4:30 PM, Saturday/Sunday 2-5 PM
Closed Mondays and Spring Break, March 17-26
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Exhibition: The Domestic Sphere Goes Pop
The Domestic Sphere Goes Pop, a new exhibition at the University Museum of Contemporary Art, investigates what happens to unremarkable objects when they are elevated to the status of art. The exhibition will open on Wednesday, April 4 and be on view through May 6. The opening reception will be held on Wednesday, April 4 from 5-7 p.m. and will include a gallery talk by Rebecca Bernard and Kristen Rudy, co-curators and candidates for Master's of Art in Art History, UMass Amherst.
The Domestic Sphere Goes Pop examines works on paper from the 1960s and 1970s. It focuses particularly on the ways artists manipulate color, form, scale, context, and technique to defamiliarize the everyday. Artists in this exhibition include: Richard Hamilton, Roy Lichtenstein, Eduardo Paolozzi, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, and Andy Warhol. The works of art in this exhibition have been drawn from the strong permanent collection of the University Museum of Contemporary Art.
The Domestic Sphere Goes Pop is co-curated by Rebecca Bernard and Kristen Rudy, Masters in Art History candidates, 2012. This exhibition is presented as the culmination of their Curatorial Fellowship. The Curatorial Fellowship is a year-long Independent Study that is conducted in collaboration with the Art History Program. The Fellowship entails all aspects of producing an exhibition, including grant writing, researching the UMCA's permanent collection, and developing concepts and theoretical underpinnings. The success of this program is made possible through the support and guidance of Loretta Yarlow (Gallery Director), Eva Fierst (Curator of Education), and
Mario Ontiveros (Assistant Professor of Art History).
Museum Hours:
Tuesday-Friday, 11:00 AM to 4:30 PM
Saturday/Sunday 2 to 5 PM
Closed Mondays
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Water Awareness Week Exhibition
A photo and fact exhibition displaying information related to Water and the global crisis. Sponsored by the student org Global Action Against Poverty Everywhere (GAAPE).
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Lecture/Reading
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Interpreting Financial News.
This series covers timely and relevant global finance topics. Regular contributors, economics department professors Mahnaz Mahdavi and James Miller and other guest speakers discuss issues related to the stock market, employment and the economy, healthcare, technology, philanthropy and more. Lunch provided for the first 50 attendees. Sponsored by the Center for Women and Financial Independence. For more information, visit www.smith.edu/wfi.
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Five College Renaissance Seminar
Naomi Miller, Department of English, Smith College. "Changing the Subject: Traveling from Scholarship to Fiction with Mary Wroth."
Contact Jeff 413-577-3600
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Philosophy Lecture
Konrad Schüttauf (University of Bonn) will give a talk entitled "Laughter - The Whole Truth". This is the fourth and final talk in the philosophy department's spring lecture series "A Career in Philosophy at Smith - Lectures in Honor of John Connolly, Sophia Smith Professor of Philosophy."
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Astrobiology, Life, And Planetary Protection: Implications on Earth and Beyond
If humans made contact with extraterrestrials, what would the implications be?
Margaret Race of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) will speak to this question in her lecture, “Astrobiology, Life, and Planetary Protection: Implications on Earth and Beyond.” The lecture will take place at Franklin Patterson Hall’s Main Lecture Hall on April 12 at 5:30 p.m.., and is free and open to the public.
Only in the past five decades have we been able to use science and technology to search for evidence of extraterrestrial life. As astrobiologists seek to learn more about the origin, evolution, distribution and fate of life on Earth and beyond, we also confront an array of challenging questions about the nature of life and its long-term sustainability.
Practically, this means that the development of guidelines for responsible exploration and planetary protection now requires a truly interdisciplinary approach, combining advances in science and technology with input from ethical, legal, and societal perspectives. Coincidentally, these deliberations about space exploration and the search for ET life also bring an interesting perspective to current debates about emerging technologies and scientific progress here on Earth.
Race is a Senior Research Scientist at the SETI Institute. Her work focuses on the scientific, technical, legal and societal issues of ensuring that missions to Mars and other solar system bodies do not either inadvertently bring terrestrial microbes along, which would complicate our search for indigenous extraterrestrial life, or return any microbes to Earth. Her interest in extraterrestrial organisms is linked closely to her long-term ecological research on exotic and invasive species. She’s also actively involved in education and public outreach about astrobiology.
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Music
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Nani Agbeli, Ghanaian Dancer and Musician in Concert
Nani Abgelli is giving this performance as part of a Five College Ethnomusicology Residency he is serving. Click here for more information.
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SEC presents Chiddy Bang
The Smith College Student Event Committee presents their annual spring concert featuring alternative hip hop artist Chiddy Bang with special guest Wynter Gordon.
Tickets can be purchased in Campus Center 106, or at the Northampton Box Office http://www.nbotickets.com/ 413-586-8686 and online at http://smith.tickets.musictoday.com/SmithCollege
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Curiosity is Gravity - Mike Vargas Plays His Piano Music
An evening of structured improvisations composed by Vargas during the last twenty years, with titles like "Stripes, Zones, With, Enthusiasm: Exertion" and "What is an Open Mind?". The structures consist of temporal, conceptual and procedural limitations that focus the playing. There may be additional sounds, visual and participatory elements in the show. This concert is part of the Smith College Festival of Sound and Space.
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Theater
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Behind Bars: Voices
A one-act play, written by Smith College Ada Comstock Scholar Moana Rawlins'13 as her final project for the Presidential Seminar "Weaker Vessels: Women and Violence Inside and Out." Six scenes from courtroom to segregation cell examines the social, economic, and structural violence of America's criminal justice system and and the very real impact policies have on the lives of women, children, and communities.
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Theater Performance
"Going Public," written by Elias Johansson-Miller ‘12 and directed by Andy Paris, will be staged
April 12-14. Tickets are free, seating is open, and no reservations are required.
"Going Public" is an original play about the beloved and broken United States public education system. Reform after reform has failed, people are angry, and the national conversation has devolved into a screaming match. "Going Public," directed by Paris (co-creator of "The Laramie Project"), uses original interviews and other sources in conjunction with searing visual imagery to create a uniquely theatrical event: one that pulls back the curtain to reveal what is really behind the national debate surrounding public education.
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Leading Ladies Presents: Godspell
Godspell is a lighthearted musical based on the story of Jesus as told through the Gospel of Matthew, and it features a variety of modern music set to lyrics from traditional hymns. The show draws from popular culture and various theatrical traditions as it follows the formation of a community in a fun, humorous way.
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